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Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.

Robert Greene

The worst thing is to sit and whine and complain and obsess about money as if that were the only sign of your worth as a human.
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Complain Human Money Obsession Worst Worth Yourself
People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
I just know who I am and what’s comfortable for me and I don’t personally do things in life because others do it or because that’s what society tells me I should do.
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Comfortable Life Myself Personal Society
Win through your actions, never through argument.
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Action Argument Win
There’s no more of an excuse for blaming other people or the world for at least not trying what you should be trying.
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Blame People Try World
Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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Competition Friendship Skill Work
For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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Aware Day Future Yourself
Become who you are by learning who you are.
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Discover Learning Yourself
Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within.
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Deep Desire Follow Master Question Yourself
When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity, you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others
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Feeling Kind Life Manifestation Security Talent World Worry Yourself
Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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Complain Justice Try Yourself
The problem with human beings is that they can’t sit alone in a room for more than an hour.
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Alone Human Problem Room Time
The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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Combination Future Learning Skills
Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons.
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Disguise Fake Honesty Quality Remember Weapon
If you’re just letting the time pass at your job, it’s just dead time and you’ll never get it back. If at that job you’re learning and you’re observing and you’re seeing about people and connections, it’s suddenly alive time.
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Alive Death Job Observation Time Yourself
Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.
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Brutal Philosophy Respect Yourself

Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.

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